Special Needs Trusts

As the unemployment rate for people with disabilities continues to decline, a new public service announcement is challenging viewers to rethink how they perceive career prospects for youth with disabilities.

If you don't know one trustee who knows all there is to know about caring for a person with special needs, you may want to consider setting up a care committee for your special needs trust.

One type of expense that a special needs trust has been able to cover is reimbursing family members for their costs when they travel to visit the trust beneficiary (the person with special needs). Due to a recent rule change,...

The new year is always a time to take stock of the previous year and to make positive changes for the months ahead. Here are several resolutions that families of people with special needs will want to keep, in 2014...

A recent Wall Street Journal article about special needs planning features several important tips from Academy of Special Needs Planners Co-Founder Diedre Braverman.

Academy of Special Needs Planners co-founder Harry S. Margolis was recently interviewed by Vanguard Investments about planning for people with special needs.

We at the Academy of Special Needs Planners (ASNP) are pleased to announce that California special needs planning attorney Kevin Urbatsch has joined our Advisory Board.

A New York Times article on special needs planning for those over age 65 features Special Needs Answers, ASNP and one of its member attorneys . . .

When you add a special needs trust to a financial aid calculation, things can get complicated because the regulations governing federal financial aid don't do a very good job of distinguishing special needs trusts from other types of trusts.